Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Android - An open-source API for the Android Market

1. Introduction

The Android Market, now "Play", is getting bigger and bigger. The result is there are too many applications that couldn't be easily discovered by all the users. It could be a good idea to have an application which matches our interests and recommend applications that could be interested for us.

The problem behind is there is not an official API which the developers can use to access the Android Market. The good news is there is an open-source API, which seems to work.

Json Pretty is a program which by give a json string, it format the string and returns a legible output. Because the result from Supermarket could be quite hard to read, it is recommendable to install it.

2.4.1 Open the terminal

2.4.2 Download the project using git. Type the follow command in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/nicksieger/jsonpretty.git

2.4.3 Go to the folder where the project is

2.4.4 Install Json Pretty using gem. Type the follow command in the terminal:

About me

I am software engineer and I am working as Android Engineer in Dubizzle (Dubai)

I am very interested in the world of Smart phones because it represents a revolution which is changing the world. I am learning how to program with Android and few times ago, to program with iOS. My intention is have knowledge of both worlds and try to improve que quality of my programs by using the best of them.

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